Design and Fabrication of evacuated tube solar thermal collector for domestic hot water

الملخص

The objective of this research is to design and fabricate solar water heating
system by Investment defective materials in Iraq for domestic sector
applications in order to encourage national industry. Defective neon light tube
with length 120 Cm and diameter 3 Cm has been used as an outer pipe.
Copper pipe with length 125 Cm and diameter 1 Cm is placed inside the glass
tube and close the space between them by circular shell that is used as an inner
absorber material after painting it by black non brightness coating. The space
between the outer glass tube and the inner copper pipe is evacuated by using
small compressor. The evacuated tubes are connected from the upper side with
insulated storage tank and from lower side with circulation pump. The
evacuated tubes are placed in the focal line of reflective surfaces. The
efficiency of the fabricated solar collector has been measured and compared
with uninsulated storage tank which put in the same conditions. These
measurements are done with and without reflective surfaces. The results
indicated that the temperature of water in the evacuated tube with reflective
surfaces reach to 59.5 °C while in the evacuated tube without reflective
surfaces reaches to 44.3 °C. The temperature of water in the evacuated tube
without circulation pump reach to maximum value which about 85.3 oC. This
value is greater than that of the case with circulation pump.